Planning a Trip to Australia

dont walk there at night time the best advice i can give anyone about st albans

It could be the best place in the world if they had some less tourists. However the beaches are nices and so are the women. Been there 3 times and really enjoyed all of them. Goodnightlife as well, but you can also take shuttles to the Kings Cross Area which is far better. If you are in Sydney then u should really go to bondi.

Go to Sydney and have an amazing time! If you feel like having an exclusive dinner that is still affordable try the La Mint a french-vietnamese restaurant in Riley street, Darlinghurst. I worked there and still say it´s one of the best Restaurants;-)

adelaide is great any time pf year but for the best time go during a festival. the streets come alive and there is heaps moreto do!

The gate to the Ningaloo reef and for the Whaleshark-Tours (best time for whalesharks: end of april - mid of june). Only place in the world for a "whaleshark-guarantee" ( during the time above!)
Amazing, awesome, unique !!!

Barkers Creek is located in Victoria, Australia. Famous as the site of the first discovery of gold in the district. Barkers Creek is now a place where people live surrounded by the re-growth box ironbark forest. The cricket ground is notable in that it is the earliest cricket ground still in use in Australia. Essentially Barkers Creek is a lovely, quiet spot with a fascinating past. Skydancers Orchid and Butterfly Gardens in Barkers Creek is Australia's only temperate butterfly house. I just love butterflies. They're so delicate beautiful... There is also an extensive orchid display, a native plant garden, a nursery and a licensed BYO restaurant which serves home-style lunches where i enjoyed myself more than any other place in Barkers Creek. Please note this place is closed in July. Lucky for me i visited Barkers Creek in March. Barkers Creek Reservoir, is a good spot for those who like some peaceful country fishing. I have no time for fishing though because i was on tour :( Another tourist spot which i recommend is at Mount Alexander. There are excellent views from here. A short distance away is the so-called 'Koala Park' (well-signposted). There are picnic facilities, toilets and a fencing path. If you wander around and look at the tree branches you will see one or two of the elusive and adored marsupials. Don't missed out this three places.

One of the stops on the train journey across Australia. Only a shop and a toilet there, apart from abandoned school, hospital and jail buildings. In 2003 the population was 2 and the day I was there those 2 people were gone on holidays and another 2 people were standing in for them!

Murrurundi is a small rural town of about 1000 people situated 327 km north of Sydney. Except for shale mining in the early 20th century there has been an absence of heavy industry in the locality and consequently change has been gradual. Murrurundi and its rural heritage have been preserved. The main street has been declared an urban conservation area. It is known that the area was occupied by the Wanaruah and/or Kamilaroi Aboriginal peoples before colonial settlement and that the two groups had trade and ceremonial links. Paradise Park, literally at the foot of a steep and densely wooded hill, is a lovely picnic area with shelters, barbecues, toilets, plenty of birds and, at dusk, there are usually some wallabies. At the edge of the area is a path which leads through the 'Eye of the Needle', a narrow gap between the rocks through which you must pass to reach the summit. The trail continues to the lookout which affords fine views across to the mountains and the valley.

Attractive historic township which has been by-passed by modern development. It is impossible to deny the charm and tranquillity of Adelong. This small town (now little more than a local service centre) was once a thriving gold mining centre. It is a pleasant and sleepy historic rural settlement set on the banks of the Adelong River and notable for both its turn-of-the-century feel - there are few new buildings in the main street - and its pleasant stands of deciduous trees which make the town particularly attractive in autumn. Adelong is located 416 km south-west of Sydney via the Hume and Snowy Mountains Highways. Richie's Gold Battery at the Adelong Falls Reserve
This is a very well preserved and fascinating area where the enthusiastic gold panner can try their luck in the creek where thousands of miners once made their fortune. The area is clearly signposted and many of the ruins are easy to recognise including the Richie's Gold Battery, the water wheels which were used to drive the battery, and the old brick chimney. A guide to the town explains: "The ruins of the Richie's gold batteries are the remains of a quartz crushing and gold saving installation, which was praised as 'a credit to New South Wales' and which ranked 'foremost of any in Australia' (Department of Mines annual report 1882). The ruins are made up of what was called a 'reefer machine' and was operated from the earliest 'rush' days up until World War I. "All the machinery at the site was worked by two large water wheels supplied with water from the Adelong Creek and carried down by races, either cut into the hillside or on wooden trestles." There are three walks at the reserve: (a) Ferndale Walk - an easy 40 minute which passes the Sawyer's Gully waterfall and the Reefer Battery (b) Battery Walk - a 30 minute walk which includes the wheel houses and the long staircase and (c) the Campsie Lookout Walk - a 15 minute walk along the Adelong Creek. Toilets and barbecues are located on-site. The site is located on Tumblong Road (clearly signposted from the western end of Tumut Street - the town's main street). It is possible to buy panning dishes from most of the stores in Adelong. For more information ring (02) 6946 2273.

Go to the tumbarumba rodeo, its weird.
Stay for free with toilets, hot water, and power at the 'rest area' campground just east of town.
If you're gay, act straight, its easier.

Daintree rain forest. Do the night walk and croc tour. The night walk was good fun and you get to see plenty of the local wild life, huntsman, snakes, various insects and lizards... well worth it. Not great internet coverage and its quite expensive so relax and forget about the outside world for a few days.

Mullumbimby is a quiet country township which was once a rural centre servicing the surrounding farms. In the late 1960s it became one of the great alternative lifestyle centres in the country. It carries this reputation with much more confidence than its more famous partner, Nimbin, which is only a short distance away. In the lexicon of names which can be used to conjure up images of hippies and psychedelic colours Mullumbimby is second only to Nimbin. Ironically today the town bears few signs of the lifestyle which invaded it in the early 1970s. There are no brightly-coloured shop fronts like Nimbin; there are no young kids up from Sydney looking for drugs and fun. Mullumbimby is located 4 km off the Pacific Highway, 798 km north-east of Sydney, 19 km north-west of Byron Bay and 165 km south of Brisbane. It is situated on the Brunswick River at 4 metres above sea-level and had a population, in 1996, of 2870 people. Tourism is important to the local economy in a region which is noted for its production of bananas, avocados, pineapples and other tropical fruit, dairy products, macadamia nuts, cattle, pigs and timber. The town's name is thought to derive from the language of the Bundjalung people with 'muli' said to mean 'hill'. The full name has been interpreted as meaning 'small round hill' - a reference to Mt Chincogan (309 m), beneath which the town is situated. The Mullumbimby Chincogan Fiesta, held each year in September, centres on a foot-race from the post office to the top of Mt Chincogan and back. The Mullumbimby markets are held in the reserve behind the Stuart Street Museum on the third Saturday of the month.

One building which is a reminder of the devastation of Cyclone Tracy is Christchurch Cathedral in Smith Street near the harbour. The original building was completed in 1902. It was 'enhanced' by the armed forces in 1944. Using stones taken from the old Post Office they built a porch as a memorial to the people who had died in World War II. Significantly when Christmas morning 1974 dawned the only part of the Cathedral left intact was the porch. The cathedral was subsequently rebuilt incorporating the porch into the new design.

Stanthorpe is a remarkably attractive town set in the middle of a rich, mixed farming area where rural activities range from vineyards, wineries and orchards to sheep and cattle grazing. Located on the New England Highway 223 km from Brisbane via Warwick, 56 km north of Tenterfield and 811 m above sea level, Stanthorpe is unusually cool for Queensland. In winter the night time temperatures in the town often fall below zero - the average minimum temperature for July is 0.3°C. In fact the town once recorded -14.6°C - the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Sunshine state. The Stanthorpe and District Historical Society Museum is a typical, well developed rural museum which includes a shearer's hut (1842), the North Marylands School Residence (1891), the Stanthorpe Shire Council Chambers, a small gaol, some interesting railway artefacts (commemorating the Amiens branch line for the soldier settlement area), and a vast collection of memorabilia from the area. All of the buildings have been beautifully preserved. The setting, next to the Top of the Town Caravan Park at the top of Main Street, is delightful. Opening times for the museum are restricted to 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. on Sundays and Public Holidays. It can be opened at other times. There are a list of telephone numbers of liaison officers outside the building.

Ballarat
Historic gold mining city of great elegance and charm.
The blue-and-white Southern Cross flags which flutter throughout Ballarat symbolise the strong association of the city with the Eureka Rebellion - an event with great resonance in Australian history - and thus with its goldmining past. Ballarat is a very major provincial centre located 110 km west of Melbourne via the Western Freeway and 441 metres above sea-level. The current population is 83 000, making it Victoria's largest inland city. Tourism, retail, manufacturing and community services are now the city's major industries. Visually, Ballarat creates an impression of stateliness and grandeur by virtue of its magnificent wide thoroughfare, the Victorian and Edwardian architecture, tree-lined avenues, parks, gardens and statuary, and its substantial educational institutions. The town's name derives from the indigenous occupants of the area (said to be the Wathawurung) who called it 'Balla-arat' which is said to mean 'a good resting place'. This is thought to be a reference to the fact that they formed a camp here by Lake Wendouree (then a swamp). Ballarat is a beautiful and historic city with wide, tree-lined streets that are replete with elegant heritage buildings. Thankfully the Tourist Information Centre have put together a detailed and excellent self-guided Heritage Walk which covers the history of the inner city's streets, buildings and sites. It is not to be missed. The Eureka Trail was developed in 1996. It is a 3.5-km walk which retraces the route taken by the police and soldiers from the government camp to the Eureka Stockade in 1854. The intention was to take the miners by surprise so they followed an indirect path through gullies, rivers and hills which is now denoted by directional bollards and interpretive signs. It takes in the fine Victorian architecture of Lydiard St (the site of the original government camp), the Eastern Oval, bluestone channels, the banks of the Yarrowee River, the Black Hill Lookout and Reserve and old miners' cottages in Ballarat East and it provides linkages with the Yarrowee River Trail and the Great Dividing Trail. The trail starts at the post office in Lydiard St and concludes at the Eureka Stockade Centre. For further information contact the Information Centre, the Eureka Stockade Centre (03 5333 1854)or ring (03) 5320 5500. Sovereign Hill is the town's primary tourist attraction, drawing over 500 000 visitors a year. It is a 35-acre open-air museum established in 1970 near the site of the first gold strike at Ballarat and on the site of the Sovereign Quartz Mining Company which sank a shaft of 216 metres near the summit of this hill. This non-profit organisation seeks to recreate aspects of Ballarat as it was in the goldmining heyday of the 1850s. Thus each of the 60 buildings is a duplicate of an original structure, as photographed, drawn or painted at the time. 250 actors in authentic costumes populate the historical park on a rostered basis. They engage in activities appropriate to the era, employ 1850s technology and bespeak contemporary social values and attitudes. Even the sounds of Sovereign Hill are what you might have expected to hear at the time - working steam engines, stamper batteries, horses' hooves, passenger coaches etc. The complex is essentially divided into four parts - the Diggings 1851-1855, the Township 1854-1861, the Chinese Village 1859, and the Sovereign Quartz Mine, covering the period1861 to 1918. The Red Hill Gully Diggings reflect the earliest days when prospectors arrived from around the world to garner the alluvial gold. You can see the simple dwellings they lived in, the types of goldmining machinery they employed and the gold commissioner's camp. Visitors are encouraged to pan for gold in the creek. Gold can be purchased at the Waterloo Store and the Lemonade Tent sells old-fashioned lemonade on Sundays and on holidays in the summer. The Township is a recreation of the emerging city indicating the support services that emerged with the influx of people to the goldfields. The shops of Main St sell the types of goods that would have been available in the 1850s - ironware, tin and brassware, saddlery, pottery, woodworks, confectioneries, printed material, draperies and various grocery and toiletry items. You can take a ride on a coach from 10.30 a.m. daily, watch craftsmen working at traditional pursuits (such as sweet-making, baking, horse-shoeing, pill-rolling, coach-wheel making and wood-turning) with period tools, have your photograph taken in period dress at the Red Hill Photographic Rooms, and visit the stables, newspaper office, apothecaries, a period cottage, a slab hut, the tentmaker, the watch and clockmakers, the timber merchants, bank, gold office, mechanics' institute and free library, foundry, furniture warehouse and fire station. There are also free shows in the theatre on most days. At this time, between one-sixth and one-quarter of the population was Chinese although they were forced into six separate protectorates or villages from 1855 due to the hostility of the Europeans. Especially appointed government protectors determined that this was the best way to avoid the kind of conflict which generated the Lambing Flat riots (see entry on Young ). As the Chinese were forbidden from camping within 250 metres of a European dwelling the Chinese Village (a recreation of the original Golden Point Village) is at a remove from the main street of the complex. There is a Chinese store, a scribe, a herbalist, miners' tents and a Joss House (temple). TheSovereign Quartz Mine reflects the period when mining shifted from small-scale alluvial and shaft mining to corporate deep-lead mining aimed at extracting the gold which was buried deep underground in quartz reefs (c.1860-1918). The dominant feature is the enormous poppet head and opposite is a Mine Information Centre which can shed light on the fine collection of working steam-driven machinery such as the stamper battery, the engine house, the winder and the Cornish beam pump. You can also take a tour below ground through a 600-metre shaft. Here you will see displays and dioramas illustrating the chronological development of quartz mining technology and the conditions under which miners worked. When the underground tunnel was being dug the workings of the North Normanby mine were discovered and incorporated into the present mine display. The Secret Chamber offers a multimedia 10-minute special effects presentation to tell the story of the Chinese on Ballarat's goldfields (also available in Mandarin and Cantonese) and, at the Sovereign Quartz Mining Company Gold Smelting Works, visitors can witness molten gold being poured into a bar or ingot.

A visit to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is a must. There you can learn all about the koala and other Australian species. Hold a koala (and get your photo), you can also interact with kangaroos while you're there. Next you need to take a trip to Moreton Island to the Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort

A good stop on route to Canberra from Sydney or vice versa. The big sheep is one of the tacky Aussie landmarks in the line of the big banana and pineapple, etc... Definitly a fun photo op if nothing else.

When you go to Kalgorlie be sure to take a flight over the goldmines, in particular the super pit, as you can get really amazing pics with your camera!

not a lot to do here except to have your photo taken with the giant sheep- another one of australia's big things

Just one word, BEA-utifull. It was just one big dream. I went with a tourguide and he had a big share in the amount of fun. He was really good, he knew so much about all the flora and fauna. If you go there, bring photocamera and filmcamera!! The only problem is that you can't capture the beauty on photo. I give it a big 9!

The locals will happily tell you that Brisbane is the only Australian capital city to enjoy a perfect climate - and who would argue with them. Brisbane, like so many early settlements along the coast of eastern Australia, started life as a penal colony. It is thought that the Ngundanbi and Yagara Aborigines lived along the banks of the river before Europeans settled the area. Do not miss the NAB - National Bank Building, located on the corner of Queen and Creek Streets (308-322 Queen Street) this huge and gracious building is regarded as the finest Classical Revival building in Australia. The treasurey casino is a must! Second in beauty as a casino only to that in Monaco. Casablanca on Caxton Street is a good britro style restautant, nightclub etc

A lovely beach a special tram ride through the suburbs of Adelaide. Great to stay at or for a day out for lunch and some shopping.

In Clermount between Perth and Freemantle you will find one of the nicest beaches within Perth. 

Located 805 km from Sydney and 362 km from Brisbane (or so the prominent and interesting road sign on the corner of the main street declares), Goondiwindi is 216 m above sea level. It is a rambling Queensland settlement which spreads for kilometres around the old Customs House on the banks of the Macintyre River. Pronounced 'gun' rather than 'goon', Goondiwindi is a typical, attractive Darling Downs town which has become important because of its unique position at the junction of the Cunningham, Newell, Bruxner, Barwon and Leichhardt Highways on the border between New South Wales and Queensland. This fame, based largely on location, has been compounded throughout Australia because of a horse named Gunsynd which became known as the Goondiwindi Grey and was the subject of a 1973 Tex Morton hit (it reached Number 5) titled 'The Goondiwindi Grey'. The town has made much of this famous horse and beside the river in Apex Park is a plaque (it is not three dimensional enough to be called a statue) commemorating the glories of Gunsynd. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the horse had 29 wins including the 1971 Epsom Handicap and the 1972 Cox Plate. It came third in the 1972 Melbourne Cup. The area around Goondiwindi was first explored by Allan Cunningham who came through the area in 1827. He named the Macintyre River after Captain Peter Macintyre who had provided horses and drays for the expedition. Settlers arrived in the 1830s and one of the properties was named 'Gundawinda' which, some authorities claim, was the local Aboriginal word for 'a resting place for the birds'. Other authorities claim the name comes from the Aboriginal words 'goona winnah' meaning 'dropping of ducks or shags'. Take your pick. Located on the town side of the main bridge across the Macintyre, the old Customs House has been converted into the Goondiwindi Museum and is a typical rural folk museum containing many interesting local artefacts. Another feature of the town, and something well worth a visit, is the Macintyre Ginnery where the local cotton is processed. In the cotton picking season the streets of the town are filled with the roar of huge trucks as they make their way from the cotton fields to the ginnery. Located a couple of kilometres out of town (follow the main street east past the Drive In) the Macintyre Cotton Gin actually encourages visits. It is open from 8.00 am - 5.00 pm between April and September. The processes inside the gin are both simple and fascinating. Following yellow lines the visitor can see the raw cotton balls being fed into the machine and can follow the series of processes which clean and prepare the cotton so that by the end it is ready to be semi-automatically baled and shipped away for carding, drawing and roving. A booklet called The Australian Cotton Story is available from the office at the ginnery.

If you're on a working visa and you're living in Manly or Deewhy and planning to stay for a bit on the northern beaches check out Harboard diggers club. I would guess its like a working man's club but, its great place to have a night out in because they have live acts on, a mini casino and if you want to watch your sport like the premiership football or the rugby the screen is massive; almost like being in the cinema.

The best city in the world.

use the public transport!!

The city of shopping, the famous cuckoo clock that plays Waltzing Matilda and Mt Dandenong which makes for a nice day trip. Don't drive unless you are very brave. The trams and traffic have an uneasy set of rules. The Melbourne Tennis Center is home to the Australian Open and of course this is the home of Aussie Rules. Lots of great Greek and Italian restaurants and a thriving metropolis of cultures.

Trams are the best way to get around Melbourne

If you're interested in film, make sure you get along to the australian film museum in Federation Square...there are great interactive pods where you can watch Australian short films for as long as you like, free of charge.